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Loved this. The shift in tone between issue #1 and issue #2 seemed very fitting to me -- the first issue was all melancholic slouching, going through the motions, etc, whereass this issue is one burst of dreamy madness after another. Underlying the punnish randomness there's a really neat structure at work here -- issue #2 seemed to flit back and forth between "This is the life!" style high adventure and something far darker and creepier. I like this story rhythm -- it's simple, but effective.
Things I especially loved in issue #2 of Seaguy:
--The fact that the world's melting icecaps have been covered in chocloate, because chocolate makes everything alright, doesn't it?
--The tourist centre in Atlantis (quite like the idea that this big old mythic place had been reduced to a tourist spot, as mentioned up-thread).
--Seaguy's Quitely jaw in that "maybe we should just pretend that none of this ever..." panel.
--The term "stubborn sheep of the deep," as well as the moth-to-beak resuscitation joke.
--Peter Doherty's colouring. Again, there's just the right mix of brightness and murk here -- such a nice sense of eerily shifting mood...
--Cameron's art, which is just so perfect. You've really captured that sort of... enthusiasm that Seaguy has for this sort of adventure, as well as the elements which make such adventures dangerous and unsettling. This is so key to the mood of this series (see my above comments about the back-forth story rhythm), and I can't imagine anyone else pulling it off quite like this.
--The ending. I mean, we all saw it coming, but that just makes the fact that it was so affecting even more impressive. Definite shades of Adaptation for me, mostly because of the song ("Imagine me and you, I do/ I think about you all the time/ It's only right" etc).
Roll on issue #3! |
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